If Jim Murphy wins – Scottish Labour loses
by John McAllion, ex-Labour MP and MSP, now an SSP member They say that every picture tells a story. Yet one image from Labour’s recent Manchester party conference conceals ...
SSP backs Living Wage campaign
by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson The SSP Annual Conference in Edinburgh was a great success. There were four times as many people there as last time and it was ...
Unions must break from Labour Tories: stop funding arsonists to torch your home!
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser On 1 July 2014 I wrote an article for the Voice—“Ructions after the Referendum”—which included the statement: ...
Why the SSP backs a ‘Citizen’s Income’
by Gerry McCartney and Wendy Macdonald At its annual conference in Edinburgh last month the SSP decided to campaign for the introduction of a Citizen’s Income (CI) and to ...
TTIP: a threat to democracy
by Bill Newman The innocent-sounding US-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is currently being prepared behind closed doors by overpaid corporate lawyers ...
As Britain pulls out of Afghanistan, what has it left behind?
by Bill Bonnar It’s not the winning that’s important, it’s the taking part. This might be a good summation of the government’s overview of Britain’s war in ...
Catalan left calls on Spanish state to drop opposition to indy referendum
by Voice Reporter As the Voice went to press, Catalans were due to vote in the 9 November consultative referendum on independence in the teeth of Spanish opposition. A broad ...
Upbeat SSP conference charts way ahead
by Voice Reporter The first post-referendum conference of the Scottish Socialist Party which met last month in Edinburgh was an inspirational event. Reflecting the flood of ...
Labour for Independence leader joins Scottish Socialist Party
‘Put socialism back at the forefront of political life’ by Allan Grogan For the last two and a half years I have campaigned within Labour for Independence to win a Yes ...
Demand a Scottish £10/hour minimum wage – resist Tory class war
by Richie Venton, SSP national workplace organiser “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”, was the memorable satirical line in George ...
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